Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety

Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety

Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements for Florida doctors. The purpose of this course is to promote patient safety and improve patient outcomes by providing an overview of the safety concerns facing healthcare systems today, including statistics and background on the magnitude of the problem and error reduction, prevention and root cause analysis. This course includes information relating to the five most mis-diagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Florida Board.

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Course summary

Available credit:

2.00AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

2.00Florida Board of Nursing

2.00Nurse Practitioners

2.00Florida Board of Podiatric Medicine

2.00General certificate of attendance

Course opens:

02/01/2019

Course expires:

01/31/2020

Paul A. Gluck, M.D.Obstetrician/GynecologistBaptist and South Miami HospitalsChair of the Board, National Patient Safety FoundationPast Chair, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety CommitteeAmerican College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsAssociate Clinical Professor of MedicineDepartment of Obstetrics & GynecologyUniversity of Miami Miller School of MedicineMiami, Florida

Paul A. Gluck, M.D., Barry M. Crown, Ph.D., Louis T. Gidel, M.D., Ph.D., and Yvonne Zawodny, R.N., have indicated that neither they nor their spouses/partners have relevant financial relationships with commercial interest companies, and they will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in their presentations or discussions.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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